24-bit color support to Xvnc

[James Weatherall]

Paresh,

That means that your Windows desktop is using depth 24 at 32 bits-per-pixel,
not depth 32 - depth refers to the number of bits of actual colour
information per pixel, while bits-per-pixel refers to the size of data
element used to store the pixel values.

The standard format for the "Highest (32-bit)" setting in Windows is 8 bits
for each of the red, green and blue components, with the 8 remaining bits
unused(*).

--
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd

(*)  Actually, they might be used for alpha-channel, Z-buffer or other
auxilliary data, but in VNC-land, we normally just count the RGB bits
towards the "depth".
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paresh masani [mailto:masaniparesh "at" gmail.com] 
> Sent: 20 June 2008 09:18
> To: James Weatherall
> Cc: Corne Beerse; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc
> 
> Yes James...I have set the screen resoulution to Higesh-32 bit color.
>  
> Thanks,
> Paresh
> 
>  
> On 6/19/08, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote: 
> 
> 	Paresh,
> 	
> 	Are you sure that the machine on which you're using VNC 
> Viewer supports
> 	depth 32, and not depth 24 at 32 bits-per-pixel?
> 	
> 	--
> 	Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
> 	
> 	
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From: paresh masani [mailto:masaniparesh "at" gmail.com]
> 	> Sent: 19 June 2008 14:32
> 	> To: Corne Beerse
> 	> Cc: James Weatherall; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> 	> Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc
> 	>
> 	> Thanks a lot for much clarification. Means Xvnc will not
> 	> supprot 32bit color ever. Is it possible? because my
> 	> vncviewer can run at 32-depth but Xvnc doent support 
> 32-depth. why??
> 	>
> 	> Thanks,
> 	> Paresh
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> 	
> 
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